If Only They Didn’t Speak English: Notes From Trump’s America Audiobook (Free)

As the BBC’s North America Editor, Jon Sopel has already established a fairly busy time of it lately. In the 18 months it’s taken for a reality star to visit from laughingstock to leader of the free world, Jon provides travelled the length and breadth of america, going through it from a perspective that a lot of of us could only imagine: he provides flown aboard Atmosphere Force One, interviewed President Obama and offers even been described as ‘a beauty’ by none apart from Donald Trump.

Through music, film, literature, TV about ONLY IF They Didn’t Speak British: Records From Trump’s America and even through the meals we eat and the clothes that we wear we all have a highly formulated sense of what America is and through our shared, tangled history we claim a particular relationship. But America today feels about as alien a nation as you could visualize. It is fearful, angry and impatient for switch. Reflecting on his trip across the continent to pay the most turbulent competition in recent history, Jon Sopel elevates a lid over the seething resentments, deep anxieties and sheer rage that discovered its embodiment within a brash, unstable and apparently unstoppable figure.

In this fascinating, insightful portrait of American life and politics, Jon sets out to answer our concerns in regards to a country that once stood for the grandest of dreams but which is currently mired inside a storm of political extremism, racial division and increasingly perverse beliefs.